Bob Lied

DDG is my preferred search, because they prioritize privacy. And they support my favorite programming language, Perl.

The slope is slippery and quick. Don't let your representatives equivocate.

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

The statement that “The Senator's health did not warrant an immediate return to the US” does not rule out that he’s brain dead on a ventilator.

Well now here's something pretty spiffy. New out today from the New York Vocal Collective, a choral arrangement of Paul McCartney's "Blackbird." The first two and a half minutes are fine, but then it becomes…something else entirely. (You know the THX sound effect?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ot...

When you need help with the difference between "figuratively" and "literally".

This administration is so corrupt thst everyone who passed within 200 feet of the Oval Office can be assumed to have committed a crime. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Republicans remain undefeated at being the least self-aware people ever to evolve on this planet.

Mixing religion with military makes the religion look stupid and the military be stupid.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

I’ve always wondered what people found attractive in the taste of beer. Beer is the liquid that oozes out of rotting plant matter. To me, it’s always tasted exactly like what it is: one step away from dragging a ladle through ditch water.

Next week will be too late. Our government is being run like a reality TV show, and the maximum ratings will come by starting the attack on Monday, right between the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday and the state of the union speech on Tuesday.

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

This is so nakedly corrupt that students studying history 20 years from now will have to read it twice to believe that it's not parody.

I don't know. It kind of feels like "you must comply with orders that the masked police give you" is, like, the opposite of freedom?

525,600 minutes. How do you measure a year? Well, if you're the department of defense, you spend a trillion dollars at the rate of $2M per minute. If you're a fascist dictator, you scream, "Not enough! Make it $3M!" What would $3,000,000 do for your community? Well fuck you, you can't have it.

"Christmas Tree Farm" - Day 12 part 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/12 I did the simplest thing that might work (Agile Manifesto for the win) and it matched the answer, but this is not a solution by any stretch of the imagination.

I just completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/11 Graph algorithm day. Part 1 textbook depth-first search. Piece of cake. Part 2 So much debugging.

"Factory" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/10 Part 1: Here, have some confidence. Part 2: How much linear algebra do you remember?

I just failed to complete part 2 of "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8. We are now in one-star territory as the event winds down.

I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8 Priority queue day. Found the module I needed on #perl CPAN.

I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7 Finding all paths looked like a scary exponential problem (and it could be -- part 2 answer was 14 digits long), but the key insight was to think about increments instead of the grid or tree.

I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5 I made myself crazy for two hours in part 1 with edge errors while merging ranges, but it paid off in part 2. I used #perl class objects, because Perl can do that too.

I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4 This one was easy because I built a #perl module for moving around a grid last year, with methods to peek around. I expect the shortened schedule will kick up the intensity tomorrow.

Perl makes it easy to chop and dice lists, and magically shape-shifts between numbers and strings. I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3 #perl github.com/boblied/aoc-...

A Perl deep cut -- the unpack function has a moment to shine. I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

Advent of Code is back, and with a shortened schedule. Instead of failing on the last five to eight puzzles, I'll only fail on the last three to five! I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

A Republican with ethics intact? I thought they had gone extinct.

"wreak of"? Democracy dies in darkness, and proof-reading dies in AI. Decision to unsubscribe to the Post re-confirmed. Also, JD Vance can bite my communion wafer.

Almost EVERYBODY takes Tylenol or acetaminophen. It correlates with almost EVERYTHING. It’s about as suggestive as blaming breathing.

Remember how Republicans lost their minds that Obama was so classless and unprofessional as to wear a tan suit?

The “big beautiful bill” is really a “big beautiful slush fund”.

These are not "young boys". They are adult men. One of them has managed to get elected as a state senator. This reaction sounds like projection from someone who no doubt has lots of internet activity he hopes never sees the light of day. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Praying for his painful and terrifying death is also less sinful.

If you find that exciting, you should open my third dresser drawer. It’s like a time capsule, but with socks and underwear.

Thai court dismisses prime minister over compromising phone call with Cambodian leader Imagine if we had a government based on ethics instead of petty tyrants trying to abuse the system through every possible loophole.

I’d like to start tomorrow, please.

I will never not click on this video.

Coming soon: the Beach Birkenau, the Delta Dachau, and the Oilfield Auschwitz.

Prediction: in 2029, when the Pritzker-Newsom administration renovates the White House to remove the poles as well as the asbestos-coated gold leaf trim, it will be discovered that the poles contain radio transmitters and antennas pointed at the Russian embassy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Dude's name is Robert. Could have had Pope Bob, but I guess they decided to go a different way.

Bribes. He’s taken 200 bribes.

And they’ll still be billionaires and multimillionaires. Let us know when they start applying to be Walmart greeters.